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Adventures of a Modern Day, Middle-Aged Hero, on the Glory Road(to family security)

9.27.2013

I'm not political...I'm just cheap!

So...my facebook is full of people looking to 'vote with their wallets', urging a boycott of Barilla Brand Pasta based on some fairly anti-homesexual comments the companies Chairman made on Italian Radio earlier this week.

Me? The reason I haven't bought any Barilla lately is that the store brand stuff is cheaper...and I think that dry pasta is dry pasta.

If Barilla starts feeling some financial crunch, and offers up a 'too good to ignore' deal....I'm probably going to find it 'too good to ignore'.

Which means I'll go from being an 'accidentally' good guy, to an 'on purpose' bad guy. But a bad guy with a good supply of cheap pasta.

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"What did I want?

I wanted the hurtling moons of Barsoom. I wanted Storisende and Poictesme, and Holmes shaking me awake to tell me, "The games' afoot!" I wanted to float down the Mississippi on a raft and elude a mob in company with the Duke of Bilgewater and the Lost Dauphin. I wanted Prester John and Excalibur held by a moon-white arm out of a silent lake. I wanted to sail with Ulysses and with Tros of Samothrace and eat the lotus in a land that seemed always afternoon.

I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be -- instead of the tawdry, lousy, fouled-up mess it is."
-- Glory Road, Robert Heinlein